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    Airframe Family: Grumman F11F/F-11 Tiger
    Latest Model:F-11A Tiger
    Last Military Serial:141824 USN
    Construction Number:141
    Compressed ID:Grumman F-11A sn 141824 USN cn 141
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F11F-1.

    31 March 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 141824.

    December 1958

    Transferred to USN Fighter Squadron VF-24, NAS Moffett Field, CA.

    March 1959

    Transferred to USN Fighter Squadron VF-211, NAS Moffett Field, CA.

    1962

    Redesignated as F-11A.

    April 1965

    Transferred to USN Jet Training Squadron VT-26, NAS Chase Field, TX.

    1968

    Transferred to Blue Angels.
    As number 5.

    4 February 1969

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC).

    May 1969

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    1973

    Transferred to Grumman.
    Modified as a testbed for new engines for the NATC.

    Transferred to NATC.
    Used as a chase aircraft.

    17 January 1975

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 5F040.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    July 1987

    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    By 1991

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 5
    Displayed in the markings of the U.S. Navy Aerial Demonstration Team, The Blue Angels, Pensacola NAS, Florida, in 1968.

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At the Pima Museum, Arizona.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    By 2017

    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    13 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: in Pima Air Museum Restoration Hanger

    19 October 2017


    Photographer: Johnny Comstedt
    Notes: Falsely marked #6 in In Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, AZ, USA 19. October 2017.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    National Naval Aviation Museum
    Pima Air and Space Museum
    The AMARC Experience
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Johnny Comstedt
    Robert Nichols
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